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What makes it great: practitioners who boast a minimum of five years of professional experience, sessions that include custom aromatherapy and hot cleansing towels, and a proprietary blend of organic oils and soothing herbs to leave skin revitalized.

Mixing beauty and business comes as naturally to Trang Warden as it does to any dealer of fine art. Her father was a man of great entrepreneurial spirit, and her mother was the owner of a San Francisco salon, giving Trang the seeds of two complementary passions. After earning her business degree and gaining a job at a Fortune 500 company, she still worked weekends at a spa with her sister, honing a talent she’d discovered with a part-time manicurist position at age 17. Today, she continues to blend commerce with cosmetic savvy—though now in one place: Zen Day Spa.
At the wheel of her beauty haven, Trang pampers hands, feet, and faces with an extensive treatment menu that relies on botanically sourced products from brands such as Epicuren, Murad, and Yonka-Paris. Tropical scents waft from mani-pedi stations, where toes soak in a signature jelly bath sprinkled with rose petals and nail technicians massage limbs with a papaya-pineapple scrub. Other body therapies incorporate volcanic clay and propolis mined from plants and flowers by bees wearing hardhats in Brazilian rainforests.

Massage therapist Duane started studying therapeutic bodywork after a career in IT impressed upon him the stresses and muscle pains that plague people every day. During each massage session, Duane tailors his techniques to soothe fussy muscles like a warm bottle of milk soothes a fussy police officer. The long, calming stokes of Swedish massage interweave with the firm pressure of deep-tissue massage and the knot-busting trigger-point technique to relieve pain and keep clients relaxed.